[ml/nj]

Color me cynical.

Great nearly free publicity for K-mart. And now there will customers who show up hoping someone else will pay for their TV. But apparently there is no similar largess at Wal-mart.

ML/NJ

[TheWriterTX]

Don't be too cynical, ML. At my membership luncheon on Wednesday, several members won gift cards (anywhere from $50 to $150) for their help with our membership drive or as prizes from the LAC raffle. We were also securing toy donations for needy kids (we had a small delivery truck full!).

Much to our surprise, they donated them to the toy drive. $450 in gift cards given back to buy toys.

Good people are still out there, in abundance!

[BfloGuy]

Color me cynical.

Similar thoughts crossed my mind, too. But in the end whatever's going on is pretty nice.

[oh8eleven]

Color me cynical.
Yeah, I don't want to be, but me too, for now anyway.
I noticed the story being pushed heavily by HLN a week ago and my first impression was that this is being staged.

[Marmolade]

I was listening to a Christian radio station yesterday and heard a woman saying her family had paid off lay aways at Walmart. She heard about it from other listeners of the station who had done the same. I guess those listening to the station are hearing about it and choosing to do the same in their communities.